On November 4, 1966, Florence experienced the most devastating flood of its history, which crippled the city and destroyed many of the world's art treasures. Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna, a 26-year-old American artist, went out into the flooded streets and photographed the dramatic unfolding events. This book presents, for the first time, a selection of eighty-four of these photographs, taken on that tragic day and in the days that followed, as the city tried to deal with the immense disaster.